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The SZA-assisted hit topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for 13 weeks, but its potential successors in the genre were either nixed following rule changes or appear below Number 40<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tThe baton that has passed from one hip-hop<\/a> hit to another for more than three decades has been dropped. Kendrick Lamar<\/a> and SZA<\/a>\u2018s hit single \u201cLuther\u201d departed the Billboard Hot 100 <\/a>following rule changes to the chart that removed the record after 46 weeks, of which the song spent 13 weeks at Number One. The record was still a Top 40 hit \u2014 landing at No. 38 in its final week \u2014 but didn\u2019t maintain a placement at Number 25 or above after its 26th week on the chart, which per the recurrent rule change<\/a> led to it being nixed.<\/p>\n \n\tFor the first time since 1990, the Top 40 on the Hot 100 doesn\u2019t contain a single rap song. The space is occupied, instead, by the entirety of Taylor Swift\u2019s The Life of a Showgirl<\/em> \u2014 now in its third week \u2014 as well as hits from Morgan Wallen, Olivia Dean, Kehlani, and Alex Warren, whose single \u201cOrdinary\u201d has spent 37 weeks on the chart. <\/p>\n \n\tA significant portion of the records in the Top 40 have been slow-burn hits, like Ravyn Lenae\u2019s \u201cLove Me Not\u201d or Leon Thomas\u2019 \u201cMutt.\u201d Others, like Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cDaises\u201d and Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u201cManchild,\u201d made high debuts and stuck around. <\/p>\n \n\tStill, there are a few rap records lingering just outside of the Top 40 that could break through. YoungBoy Never Broke Again\u2019s \u201cShot Callin,\u201d which debuted on the Hot 100 in late September, has inched its way up to No. 43. It doesn\u2019t have much competition in the genre. Other songs on the chart that qualify as rap \u2014 determined by songs that are also eligible on the Hot Rap Songs chart, where \u201cLuther\u201d remains Number One \u2014 include BigXthaPlug and Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cHell At Night\u201d at Number 50 as well as Cardi B and Kehlani\u2019s \u201cSafe\u201d at Number 57.<\/p>\n